Torah - Genesis 41:44:17 Haftarah - 1 Kings 3:15-4:1 Brit Hadashah - Acts 7:9-16, Revelation 12:1-17 This is the tenth reading from the book of Genesis. Last weeks portion (Vayeshev) ended with Joseph still in prison for a crime he did not commit, and now any hope of an appeal are pretty much gone as …
Author: Matt
Just a sinner seeking to do YHVH's will. Father of 5, and husband to a wonderful wife.
Tzitzit – Do you wear them?
Numbers 15:38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: This command was given on the heals of event that had the whole congregation of Israel …
Take up your Cross…
Luke 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. What does it mean to take up your cross? Seriously? In the western Greco-Roman church mindset, what does that statement even mean? We don’t crucify people these …
VaYeshev (He Settled)
Torah – Genesis 37:1-40:23 Haftarah – Amos 2:6-3:8 Brit Hadashah– Acts 7:9-16, Revelation 12:1-17 Last week's parashah (VaYishlach) was loaded! Its hard to summarize everything that was presented in the account of Jacob's (now Israel's) return to Haran to be with his father. But the prominent event in my mind was the wrestling with the …
VaYishlach (He Sent)
Torah – Genesis 32:4-36:43 Haftarah – Hosea 11:7-12:12, Obadiah 1:1-21 Brit Hadashah– 1 Corinthians 5:1-13, Revelation 7:1-12 In last week's parashah (Vayetzei) we are told how Jacob fled from his brother Esau and went to Haran to find Rebekah’s family and to hopefully find a wife. On his way there, God appeared to him …
Torah is Light 